The Dickinson press., 1887-04-09
PERSONAL
Tho Sultan of Turkey bos 4s4 wives.

4uc 0uAtd4 VI AuTkcy mas 4Sf wives.
1t is asserted that Mr.. Blaine will go to
Europe in May.
Senator Mahonc's successor, John w. Dam
aels, Is said to resemble Edwin Booth III
feature.
1t is s0id that DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
plays with a big gray top of the huml.ing
variety.
Two members of the British house of pnr-
Lament have lost their cycsight-Dr. Rob
%ertson, the Brighton member, and Mr.. Mac
donald, an Irish representative.
John L, Sullivan says that all America is
behind him. If this be true, then "all Amer
lea never had Il more opportune moment for
kicking in all its life.
George ii. Corliss, the great engine luildcr,
was at IS proprietor of a general store in n
New York town. His first attempt Mt invcn-
tion-a machine for sewing shoes-was made
ut that time, but was not u success.
Rev. Phillips Brooks says that when Il
mother brings him Il baby to admire lie takes
the baby, turns it over, holds it up anl says:
snow, that is Il baby" He thus avoids toll
ing any white lies regarding tho haby's
merits.
Pope Leo NlII. has Il famous collection
of laccs, which has lately received an i'm
portant addition. Ih" design is copied from
the Rezzonico set, made for Clement XIII.
by th" Venetian nuns. The cost of rpproduc-
Ing it was 500 81 yard.
lii tho !io,ts" OF T. y. Edison. ut L.lewcl,yn
Park, is 81 peculiar m~"nl"ntnot Bor"hcr. Tho
inventor at "mc time requested til" preacher
I" speaks few sentences into t!!c photograph,
SO t.ia: Edison il now the "i,l man who rai,
rcvivc The silencod Voice of tn. dead preacher.
Sir Charles Dilke has inlMfitrl ~ FORTUNE
from Il relative who bore Il nalne ~cuplloni
ou>ly pronounced Shocks, Int spoiled Say
cnoo}is. The am poruiiarieies of pronunriu.
ton prevail largely in the south, where, as in
l.n>:land. Rcauc!iamp is "Beacham," and Tai
%iofrrro is "T'oliivcr."
Ex-senator Bruce, now in NV Work, has
been l"cturins during Ile past winter, and
Is 40" engaged Ill some literary work touch
ing upon the colorea people. Ills Treatment
at tho New York he tells is precisely the same
accorded to white g,lcsts.
The old family B;hlo that belonged tc
"Mnry. the mother of Washington, is still il
existence, and is kept in a branch of tho
Washington family in Virginia. 1t contains
Tho family register, recording tho birth o
George Washington. Feb. ~, 1872. TIL,
binding lIa, u covc- OF cloth woven by tn
hand of his mother.
When Lieutenant Emory, who figured $,
prominently in THE GionlT relief ~.xnudition
was building his house on Connecticut ave
nuc, Washington, he noticed tho lion and TIN
unicorn over the port cocherc over the Brit
i>l minister's house across tho WAY. anil la
n t"inahawk put over tie port "ochr.v of hi
OWN house. Minister Thornton used to cor
slider it n good joke.
Abraham Lincoln was gi"en - purse o
S:D by the Wings of his district to pay hi
personal expenses wien lm ran for congress
After the election was over he handed bsrl
Sl9925. 81 did not need H." ic sail, II mao,
the canvass on my own horse; my ontnrtuij
mcnt. being at the houses of friends. cost III.
nothing: and my only outlay wa seventy
five cents for Il barrel of cider, which som.
farm hands insisted | should treat them to.